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International soccer authorities and law enforcement officials are struggling to combat rampant match-fixing by what they describe as sprawling networks of organized crime, a problem that has plagued the sport for decades but appears to have intensified recently.

NYT > Home Page By JEFF Z. KLEIN 2011

International soccer authorities and law enforcement officials are struggling to combat rampant game fixing by what they describe as sprawling networks of organized crime, a problem that has plagued the sport for decades but appears to have intensified recently.

NYT > Home Page By JEFF Z. KLEIN 2011

International soccer authorities and law enforcement officials are struggling to combat rampant match-fixing by what they describe as sprawling networks of organized crime, a problem that has plagued the sport for decades but appears to have intensified recently.

NYT > Home Page By JEFF Z. KLEIN 2011

Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism."

Narrative Strategies 2009

We'll be inducing a commute from Puyallup, meaning that we'll make it easier and cheaper to live there, which then drives development of cheap housing, which then drives up the population in sprawling areas.

Parking as Far as the Eye Can See « PubliCola 2010

So began a message-board discussion on the website of Men's Health magazine, with debate on the all-powerful clothing label sprawling over several pages.

Julian Dunkerton: People just love the cut of his cloth |Observer profile 2011

Here is a dated but thoroughly delightful article about maintaining continuity in sprawling, multiple-creator-written series.

Earth-2 Oscar & Felix eddvick 2009

Most of us live in sprawling chaotic cities that have expanded monstrously in the last decades, without anything resembling urban planning.

First Stop in the New World by David Lida: an interview with the author 2008

Most of us live in sprawling chaotic cities that have expanded monstrously in the last decades, without anything resembling urban planning.

First Stop in the New World by David Lida: an interview with the author 2008

Erase for a moment the images of Nigeria that may come to your mind — of burning garbage dumps in sprawling Lagos or unemployed young men brandishing jerry cans in the Niger Delta.

One Nation, Under Gods 2008